Flame of Hope

 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a based on Suzanne Collins' novel Catching Fire and is the second instalment to The Hunger Games Trilogy. Catching Fire is about the “girl on fire”, Katniss Everdeen, tries to protect her loved ones from President Snow because she has become a symbol of hope for the people of the districts who started to rebel against Panem. President Snow tries to eliminate her in the Panem’s Third Quarter Quell wherein she, alongside with Peeta, will be competing against representatives chosen from the victors in each district.

 According to The Merriam Webster Dictionary, science fiction is a “story about how people and societies are affected by imaginary scientific developments in the future,” and I thing that the movie Catching Fire falls under this category. In this movie, there were hovercrafts and advance technologies which seem almost impossible for humans to be able to create such as the dome wherein the Quarter Quell took place. They were able to control the environment inside the dome, and even add poisonous gasses and wild, dangerous animals that could cause real damage and even death to humans by just using technology through computers. 

Past. The film depicts the past as we have seen in Panem. The clothes that they have where somehow medieval. During the parade of the representatives of the districts for the Quarter Quell, they were riding horse chariots as they paraded in Panem. Katniss also used bows and arrows to hunt in the wild for their sources of food and even traded the animals which she hunts for money. Also, the people of Panem where entertained with the misfortunes of others, just like the people of Rome before when they fed the Jews to lions. Present. The Districts of Panem each have their own industry which is also present now in our own situation in real life. There is the presence of competition, survival of the fittest, and hierarchy of social classes in society. Future. The movie depicts the future with the advance technologies that they had, not only in Panem, but also in some parts of the districts. 

Science, technology, and society have its own role in each district, but there are still constraints because the districts are under the rule of Panem. They have technology in their own industries and are living in a society under the rule of Panem. But they cannot communicate with people from other districts. 

Over-all, the Catching Fire is a great movie and, for sure, the third installment, The Mockingjay, will be something that people will anticipate to watch.